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Anouk van der Weiden

In 2004 I started studying Psychology at Utrecht University. During my study, I discovered my passion for social psychology and experimental research. I graduated from Utrecht University’s Master in Social Psychology (cum laude) in 2008 on my Thesis that addressed the effect of observed gaze-shifts on object desirability.

After graduating, I commenced a PhD project at the department of social psychology at Utrecht University, supervised by Henk Aarts and Kirsten I. Ruys. In my PhD project I investigated when and how people experience that they are causing (intended as well as unintended) behavioral outcomes, also referred to as the experience of self-agency.

Currently, I work as a post-doc at the Psychiatry Department of the University Medical Centre in Utrecht on a project that deals with the implications of experienced self-agency for social interaction in health and schizophrenia.

My main research interests are the experience of self-agency, joint action, theory of mind, conscious and nonconsious processes, eye gaze & joint attention.